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The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics
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Episode 63: Noise and Silence, War and Peace in the Politics of DR Congo | Tom Turner (DR Congo country specialist, Amnesty International USA) on the politics of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, focusing on The Congo Wars and their complex political, economic and international dimensions; the obstacles to peace; and the ambiguities of the “Kony 2012” campaign. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 62: Kingship, legitimacy, and violence in Rwanda and Eastern Congo | David Newbury (Smith College) on the historical dynamics of kingship, legitimacy and violence in Central and East Africa, focusing on Alison Des Forges’s Defeat is the Only Bad News: Rwanda under Musinga, 1896-1931 and The Land beyond the Mists: Essays on Identity & Authority in Precolonial Congo & Rwanda. He deconstructs static views of royal dynasties/chronologies, comments on the legacy of Des Forges, and discusses changes in the writing of African history. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 61: ‘Holy Hustlers’, Freud, and African Wisdom Diviners | Anthropologist Richard Werbner (University of Manchester) on the similarity between Freud and African wisdom diviners, ethnographic filmmaking in southern Africa, and the place of ‘Holy Hustlers’ (pentecostal churches and prophecy in Botswana) — the subject of his latest book – in the public sphere. | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 60: The Atlantic Slave Data Network | Historians Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and Walter Hawthorne on Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network — a digital history project of Matrix and the MSU History Department funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. They discuss the origins of the ASDN, intellectual and technological challenges, and the wider significance of building a freely accessible web database on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 58: African Women in Politics | Aili Mari Tripp (U. of Wisconsin – Madison and ASA President) on African women’s movements and paradoxes of power in Museveni’s Uganda. Includes discussion of democratization and highlights the need for the African Studies Association to challenge the U.S. government’s draconian cuts to international education. With guest host Prof. Kiki Edozie (International Relations, Michigan State). | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 57: African Activists | Eddie Daniels and Christine Root on spending a lifetime working for African liberation; Daniels in South Africa, where he was imprisoned with Nelson Mandela on Robben Island (1964-79), and Root in the U.S. as Associate Director of the Washington Office on Africa in solidarity with such struggles. The African Activist Archive preserves records and memories of ordinary Americans’ support for Africans’ fight against colonialism and apartheid. | 10/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 56: The Great Dance: Masks in Malawi | Dr. Gary Morgan, MSU Museum Director, on African masks and the Great Dance (Gule Wamkulu) in Chewa society, Malawi. Discusses origins and characters of Gule Wamkulu, and gender, political, educational and health aspects of masks and their future in a globalizing world. Accompanies MSU exhibition on masks and the first major book on Gule Wamkulu with Claude Boucher of KuNgoni Centre of Culture and Art, Mua, Malawi. Photo: Greya character (copyright Gary Morgan) | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 55: African Archives, Past & Present | Derek Peterson (University of Michigan) on the politics and practice of archives in East Africa, the precarious state of some archives, and exciting possibilities of preservation and digitization at Mountains of the Moon University in Uganda; “homespun” historians in Recasting the African Past and Mau Mau prisons in Kenya; and his forthcoming book Pilgrims & Patriots: Conversion, Dissent, & the Making of Civil Societies in East Africa. | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 54: Political Biography | Heather Hughes (University of Lincoln) on her new biography of John Langalibalele Dube, founding president of the African National Congress of South Africa, which celebrates its centenary in 2012. Hughes focuses on Dube’s rich connections to the United States; his educational work and political beliefs; and the previously overlooked role of Nokutela Dube. | 7/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 9 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
great selection of guests
The producers of this podcast have managed to pull in an impressive collection of guests. Patrick Bond's discussion of climate change and environmental justice is especially worth checking out.
Balanced and Intelligent Podcast about Africa
This podcast offers a balanced and intelligent look at the histories, cultures, peoples, and politics in Africa. Covering a wide range of topics, the podcasts feature interviews with scholars doing a host of interesting projects in Africa. Well produced and edited, the interviewers, Peter Alegi and Peter Limb, do an exceptional job of bringing current and past issues to life. For those interested in Africa, this is one podcast well worth your time.
A Compelling Look Into the Heart of Africa
There are few parts of the world that have received less exposure in the media than Africa, a continent rich in history, culture, and diversity. Africa Past & Present is a welcome effort to bring stories from the African past and modern world to listeners across the globe. Hosted by Peter Limb and Peter Alegi of Michigan State University, the show features interviews, commentary, and debate from African scholars and Africans themselves on an array of topics relating to the continent's diverse history and peoples, both past and present. For those interested in the history and culture of Africa or the world of international affairs, Africa Past & Present is an essential listen.
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